Maine State Police Detective Adam Kelley arrested 29-year-old Katrina Mitchell at her home on Town Hill Road and charged her with endangering the welfare of a child.
I have no problem whatsoever with those charges.Yes, parents sometimes sneak a nap at the same time as young children.No problem there. The problem is she took a nap and left the defenseless child in a dangerous situation.I love my dog like a family member, and he’s gentle as can be, but he’ll never be left alone with a child
Why didn’t the hullabaloo of the dog attack instantly wake Mom?
ITA- sadly, parents are responsible even in the event of an “accident”. The dog had access to the baby without supervision, that never should have been allowed.
I am saddened for the mother. BUT. It seems like more and more parents are getting away with killing their children “accidentally”... leaving them in a hot car is an accident, etc. Just recently we had two different drownings of small children- one on a river where the parents took the baby tubing and supposedly the life vest came off, and another where the mother had her baby in a Bumbo seat in a wading pool and it tipped over. These were deemed “accidents” and the parents were not charged.
I had no trouble leaving my black and tan coonhound alone with my kids, as a matter of fact if they are outside on the acreage, he would guard them closely, the lab would just play and not care, but that hound kept the animals and everything away, most loving dog ever.
I think it varies a bit breed to breed, but there’s an old saying... once you go hound, you don’t go back. There’s a reason they called coonhounds “settlers dogs” back in the day (mid to late 1700s), because everyone had one and they did it all.